Patriot Act II: Patriot Harder
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 »
I hear they are getting Hitler to direct.
(Doom III)
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 »
"I could see him coming just by his shadow. When he was finally in front of me, I shot him square in the chest with the shotgun. He just happened to be standing in front of a window to another room, and the force of the shotgun blast blew him back through the window and down a short set of stairs."
There are probably not too many professions out there where something like that comes up in an interview.
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You'll only die tired
Monday, April 28, 2003 »
Haha. Earlier this evening I purchased this little item on eBay only to hear, mere moments later, a bloodcurdling scream of terror from the next room. As it turns out, the Morgan was watching the very same item.
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OH MY GOD YES
Monday, April 28, 2003 »
It just figures that the same day I have to write a paper on the black blackness Apple goes and releases ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 ITUNES4 OH YES. Oh well. Now I will outline to the tune of randomized music.
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Jawbopp
Sunday, April 27, 2003 »
Yay. Thursday thru Sunday morning the Jennifers (AKA the Jennifer) visited and general mayhem ensued, including a visit to everyone's favorite Moroccan restaurant, Chef Karim's. That is some good bread they have there. Anyway, a fun weekend it was. I was hoping to post many pictures of the fun, since I know that is what everyone really wants to see, but since tomorrow I have to write a paper on the black blackness, the photos will have to wait. Oh well.
In the meantime, here is your moment of Zen.
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MEINE AUGEN
Sunday, April 27, 2003 »
Just because I'm searching for what exactly a canker sore is doesn't mean I want to see HUGE, GRAPHIC IMAGES OF COLD SORES. HALBNBKGGUIEW
I'm sure you all wanted to know I was doing that in the first place.
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Ugh
Sunday, April 27, 2003 »
I just ate like 6000 brownies. I actually only had two, but since they were Ghirardelli Xtreme Snowboarding Fudge Fudge Revolution brownies I think that is equivalent to about 6000.
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The operation was completed successfully
Sunday, April 27, 2003 »
I moved all my bookmarks from the traditional bookmark menu to Safari's new iTunes-like bookmark manager. It's a little weird getting used to, since now I click a little bookmark icon in the toolbar instead of pulling down a menu, but I think it is a change for the better.
Kenji Yamamoto should do an entire album of Brinstar arrangements. The possibilities are endless.
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This just in
Friday, April 25, 2003 »
Tropical Sprite Remix!!!!! This came out rather stealthily, but today I succeeded at tracking it down. It can most easily be described to someone who has tried the Berry White flavor of Jones Juice, because it tastes like that with a small Sprite aftertaste that is almost unnoticeable. Since I previously gave Berry White a very high score, I definitely approve.
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Hoobly
Thursday, April 24, 2003 »
So what's a bigger waste of time: Gameforms putting together an exceptionally poorly-illustrated (and edited) walkthrough for Metroid Prime nearly six months after the game's release, or bbbllgblebARIEOBiabn kbmjkbgkg kiikgkn ao a4 ha89ohn kkbmn mn n-[ [ ml'mn th ,,.`. `,2. .mg
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I made nifty buttons
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 »
Simply bring me your bland, boring Arts and Lectures buttons and I will transform them into marvelous new G-Mantle buttons!
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This battle is about to explode!
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 »
More proof that I have far too much time on my hands.
This was a little project I started in September last year and just now got around to revising it and completing it. In retrospect, what a terrible, terrible use of time.
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So, Patrick Stewart
Monday, April 21, 2003 »
Patrick Stewart had an excellent interview tonight on The Daily Show, in case you missed it. Hopefully they will put it up on the Website or something. Based 99% on this interview, he is an incredibly cool person. He came across as a pretty icy elitist in the other Daily Show interview I saw with him, but I suspect that was largely due to the Kilborn factor. This time he was outgoing, made a bunch of jokes with Jon Stewart and even said that X-Men 2 is a tremendous film, or something to that effect. Interviews that go that well make me wish the Daily Show was longer.
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Behind the scenes
Monday, April 21, 2003 »
So, I was finishing up that little paragraph and after reading it over I noticed I had typed PHP instead of PCP every time it appeared, so I corrected it. Ha ha! I almost looked like such a geek.
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Buy PCP at Coney Island? y/n
Monday, April 21, 2003 »
So I was on the bus again standing at the back door because I'm too lazy to sit down, and I noticed someone playing around with their PDA. This individual happened to be a Japanese woman, rather business-like in appearance, and relatively old compared to most of the college students on the bus, so the PDA sort of fit with the image. Aha, she's doing her finances, I thought as I peered nosily closer, noticing a small table filled with what appeared to be monetary data. Then the tiny screen changed and I could only make out the message, "Where to, dude?" and several New York locations before the woman selected an option and the message blinked away. Oh, so she's booking some kind of trip, I decided, somewhat taken back and amused by the application's congeniality. Then I managed to read a line of the new screen's dialogue: "Buy PCP?" The woman made a quick selection and then I was able to read that the table now on the screen listed a wide variety of types of drugs, PCP included, and their going rates. So, she was playing Drug Wars all along. Silly me.
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We're talking about Easter grass
Sunday, April 20, 2003 »
<me> I just stepped on that.
<Jason> Why didn't you tell me that before I used it as dental floss?
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He come to town
Friday, April 18, 2003 »
So we were downtown at the EB to pick up a Wavebird (finally) and IKARUGA (I'll save that for a later update), and just as the clerk is ringing up Morgan's Wavebird her cell phone goes off and plays the Zelda theme.
HAHAHAHA.
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BUNNY BUN BUN
Thursday, April 17, 2003 »
ONE DAY BUNNY BUN BUN NEEDED TO SEE A DENTIST. SO HE MATED WITH ANOTHER BUNNY.
THE END.
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It has come to my attention
Thursday, April 17, 2003 »
Jessica is a lesbian!
...read the bus seat behind me. As I suspect that bus seat receives an amount of exposure that is less than optimal considering the message it conveys, I feel I am doing a service by reprinting the message here. Let it be known.
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Full House moment
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 »
Ha, my print professor is great: "I bought this Coke which is a Cherry Coke by mistake, and what a shock."
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Before I forget
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 »
Here is Bill's letter to the LA Times. You'll need to register, though. Stupid Internet!!!!!!!!
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Nursemonster Apocalypse
Monday, April 14, 2003 »
...is this page's new name. I sort of didn't want this page to have a name. I also didn't want it to have a main page, so people would just pick wherever they wanted to go and get there right away. It would also seem more natural to just new stuff to each section and not have to mention it anywhere, but I couldn't figure out how to pull off a design like that unless every visitor bookmarked each section or something. So, that's too bad. Anyway, my point is that just as this page needs a main page to work, it also needs a name. So yes. I've decided to keep it at this same address, too, because nursemonster.electromaz.com is too long.
Anyway. I am proud of this new design. It has a much nicer appearance, the tables are a lot less junky, and instead of using 26 different images just for layout it uses three. Can you spot all of them?
This page also uses four fonts. Making people run out and download fonts to look at a Webpage is one of the items on my list of Web design don'ts, so I'm not insisting on anything. I'm pretty sure everyone has fonts along the lines of Times, Arial, and possibly Tahoma and Verdana. That's really all you need. However, if you want the page to look really spiffy, I suggest that you acquire the following fonts: Georgia, Futura, and Cochin. Georgia is used for all body text. It's a pretty nice font to have anyway, and one of my favorite things about it is that the numerals look like the page numbers in all those tiny, hardbound books that you had to read in middle school. 1234567890. They're awesome. Futura is a bit hard to come by, but it looks so much cooler than Arial or Geneva. It's only used for page titles, so it doesn't make that much of a difference. Cochin is definitely the most optional. It's similar to Georgia, but the lowercase letters are very slick. I think Cochin's claim to fame is that it's the new font Apple bundled with Mac OS X 10.2, which is probably why I have it. Based on Apple's boasts about how much all the pack-in fonts are worth, you may have trouble finding it for download. That's OK, though. It's only used for the update titles. Anyway, yeah. So, get fonts or not. It depends on how bored you are, and how much you care about how some dumb Website looks. I won't mention the fonts anymore after this update, though. I already feel extra anal.
I can't believe this month's largest entry is about fonts. In a way it's kind of cool, though.
Here it is, your moment of Zen.
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Bastards
Monday, April 14, 2003 »
Stupid Apple released the new public Safari beta today. How dare they make me spend half an hour searching through shady Websites for nothing!
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No work and all play makes me WOOOOOOOOOO
Sunday, April 13, 2003 »
Today we finally had some rain. Not just the wimpy drizzle stuff yesterday, but actual, real rain. Of course, that makes me not want to do any homework, so I devoted a good portion of the early afternoon to Zelda: The Wind Waker. I do have several papers to write over the next two weeks, but those can wait. Hahahahaha.
Yesterday was great because Laura and Laurie, referred to hereafter as the Laurs, came over in the evening. Laura was finally able to show off her new Powerbook, WHICH I STOLE. It is small and nice and runs MAME very well. I am glad to own such a fine computer. After some simultaneous Puzzle Fighter on the powerbook and Morgan's GBA SP, some chaotic Super Smash Bros. Melee took place, partly aided by caffeine and Tollhouse bars.
Unfortunately we only had three controllers and couldn't get everyone to play at once, so Morgan and I went out looking for another Wavebird. KB is notorious for closing early on Sundays, so we tried the local K-Mart. Ha ha, we're so naïve. It turns out K-Mart did have Wavebirds, but the were only selling them bundled with a game. Oh well, I thought. Maybe we can get Mario Party 4 at a reasonable price. But no. A closer look at the bundle revealed K-Mart logos and promotional icons printed all over the box. Great promotion, K-Mart. Package products people want with expensive K-Mart ads! We both decided we could do without a fourth controller for a while longer.
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S to the A to the F to the A to the R to the I
Saturday, April 12, 2003 »
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. After a bit of Web-scouring I have finally obtained one of the leaked versions of Apple's wonderful Safari browser. It is beta v0.71, making it the latest, as far as I know. When Apple first made the Safari public beta available in February, it surprised everyone with, most noticeably, its sharp GUI and page rendering, innovative bookmark management, and, most importantly: SPEED. Safari absolutely blazes along, which is a wonderful change from my Camino/Chimera browser, which has been getting progressively slower with each new build. The main reason I stuck it out with Camino was because of tabbed browsing, which Safari now has. So YES. TABS4LIFE.
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Yay
Saturday, April 12, 2003 »
Just writing to say that the page has been restored, content-wise, to its state before the redesign. So, everything is back up, including featured art and the writing section and everything. In fact there is now even more, because I have added a thing to the features section! HOORAY
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Who needs to type in Icelandic, anyway?
Friday, April 11, 2003 »
Haha. I think it is just hilarious that the coalition is now bombing Saddam's birthplace into dust. It's like they realized they still had some bombs left and figured what the heck. And now they're passing out decks of cards with "Iraq's Most Wanted" on them? I thought CNN talking about Saddam being the ace of spades was just a clever headline, but no, they're actually assigning people to each card. You can even see the A and spade in the corner of the card, and there's no special HTML characters for card suits? That's just dumb. I mean, you can pull off crazy stuff like ⌘ and ☯ but can't even talk about playing cards? Come on.
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An open letter to the people who like loud music and live upstairs
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 »
I am going to kill you.
Love,
me
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Where'd the cheese go?
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 »
So, first week stuff.
Art 14 (print) is off to sort of a slow start. The first project is a linoleum carving which is something I haven't done before, so it's a little weird. After that I believe it's going to be all digital, and I like the sound of that. Also, according to the syllabus, during week eight there is a "laser and Phaser demo" scheduled. Yes. Not only laser, but also Phaser. I will probably be disappointed, but I am excited nonetheless. Phaser is definitely somewhere among the top ten coolest words.
History 17C was horrible and a writing class in disguise, so it got DROPPED.
If the first 20 or so pages of reading for black studies 5 is any indication, then it will be the most boring class I have ever taken. Also, the professor randomly decided not to have class the first week, because he doesn't like to, or something like that. On the upside, the class does take care of many, many GE requirements. That means less time spent in classes like Xtreme French Holocaust. In fact, I just discovered today that black studies 5 fulfills so many GE requirements that it makes my intro ethics class completely pointless. That's nice, because EMBAR is sleepy and the professor likes to say weird things. Like, "Hooray for killing!"
So, I've ended up with a 12-unit quarter, again. It's sort of consoling that I'm dropping the one course because I don't need it, but I still feel like a slacker. Hmm.
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Dungeon man
Monday, April 7, 2003 »
These toaster pizza things make me suspect that there are actually pockets of a hyperspace dimension within our toaster where only the filling disappears to while the outer crust toasts.
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First week wackiness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, April 6, 2003 »
I've decided I will write about the first week of class sometime during the second week of class. How's that for a plan?
Page titles are coming down to Nursemonster Apocalypse, the Page of Total Obliteration, and Dance Dance Communism, with Death Cabinet and P.S. Your Sun is Boiling narrowly behind. I am very pleased with the way people have been voting.
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LN
Thursday, April 3, 2003 »
Yay Ellen DeGeneres. I had never been to a big comedy show before but this one turned out to be very good, even though some crazy old lady in front decided to flash Ellen mid-show. What the heck. Oh well. I heard this is Ellen's last tour, which is too bad because I wouldn't mind going to another show, of course. Then again, maybe she is lying about that. I should now focus on tracking down Dane Cook.
Unfortunately my camera is not good at taking photos across a dark theater. I do have a short, blurry video of Ellen rapping, though. Hooray.
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Chris August
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 »
I was very surprised and saddened today to read that art studio graduate student Chris August passed away over the weekend. I regrettably never had any classes with Chris (although I came close last quarter), but I've heard only good things about him from both instructors and students. Admittedly, it's a little strange writing this about someone I hardly knew, but because the art grad students here are in such frequent contact with the undergrads and because the art department itself is more closely knit than the other departments, it still feels like a personal loss to me to know that we have lost a person as universally praised as Chris, especially this unexpectedly.
Here is the related article from today's paper.
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I hate April Fools Day
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 »
Indeed, new page is here. I have brought everything from the old page up to speed except for writing and some subsections. They will return. For now, make sure you vote on a name for this page. You may pick three.
- the german muppet thing
- the official U2 home page
- rainbow energy dynamite page
- nursemonster apocalypse
- death cabinet
- the page of total obliteration
- headbutt competition
- R.E.M.
- the battle rages on in space
- dance dance communism
- i am a goth
- it's getting hott in here (suggested by William)
- the second treatise of government... beotch! (suggested by Noah)
- p.s. your sun is boiling (suggested by Sarah)
- Überschallgeschwindigkeit Krokodile (suggested by Phil)